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Border Patrol President: Trump is Delivering on his Promise to Fix Our Broken Immigration System

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President Trump is fulfilling his promise to fix America’s broken immigration system. The recent surge in deportations of fraudulent asylum seekers is a major victory for Trump, but more importantly, it’s a major victory for our country. The only way to secure the border is by giving our immigration enforcement agents the tools they need to properly enforce our existing immigration laws. That’s what Trump promised to do and it’s precisely what he’s done.

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Fighting Fires Without Facing the Facts of California Population Expansion

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  by  Christy Shaw

The crises in California are a long way from over, and the problems will be more difficult to solve as the state's population, now at 40 million, continues to grow. Wildfires, water shortages, and planned power outages are just the tip of the iceberg if population is not part of the discussion to fix and enforce U.S. immigration policies.

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Beto drops out: His life along the border gave him little appreciation for boundaries

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  by  Roy Beck

It is hard to distinguish oneself among so many Presidential aspirants when everybody is rushing in the same direction. Beto O'Rourke tried but couldn't attract enough funding, dropping out of the race today.

Beto tried to beat his competition by advocating for the most leniency toward illegal immigration and for the most foreign workers to help business owners. (Take a look at his positions below.)

But Elizabeth Warren matched his nearly open-borders enthusiasm, and most of the rest of the candidates came very close.

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Report: Chad Wolf to be Named Acting DHS Secretary

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The White House plans to name Homeland Security official Chad Wolf acting secretary, according to three people familiar with the situation. Wolf will replace acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan, whose last day in the job was supposed to be Thursday. McAleenan will now stay until Nov. 7, according to one of the people with knowledge of the matter.

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AG Barr Limits Ways Aliens can Fight Deportation

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Attorney General William Barr issued a decision limiting aliens' options to fight deportation late Friday, furthering the Trump administration's immigration agenda. The little-noticed decision, made through the attorney general's unique "certification" power, removes a long-standing path to disqualify aliens with multiple drinking and driving convictions from the cancelation of deportation orders.

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Gov. DeSantis Signals Another Push for E-Verify System

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged lawmakers Tuesday to create legislation that would require employers to use a federally operated database to verify the immigration status of workers. About two dozen states now tap into the E-Verify data. But some of them, including Florida, only require verification for government jobs.

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DHS Grants Hundreds of Thousands of Salvadorans an Extra Year to Leave U.S.

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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan signed an agreement with El Salvador on Monday, giving Salvadorans covered by the Temporary Protected Status program an extra year to return to their home country. Currently, there are around 200,000 Salvadorans living in the U.S. under the special, temporary status.

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Politico: Trump Eyes H-1B Lobbyist for DHS Chief Position

Acting DHS Undersecretary Chad Wolf

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As reported by Politico, Chad Wolf, who sits at the top of Trump's shortlist for Acting Sec. of DHS, worked as a lobbyist pressuring members of Congress to expand the already inflated H-1B visa program. The report states that Wolf represented Indian and U.S. companies that place H-1B workers, often displacing U.S. workers in the process.

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House Passes H.R. 565 - The AMIGOS Act

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This morning the House of Representatives passed HR. 565 - The AMIGOS Act. Rather than fixing the well-documented problems with the E-1 and E-2 visa programs, an unlimited amount of visas given to countries who enter 'free trade agreements' with the United States, HR 565 simply adds another country to these uncapped, unlimited programs with no consideration for the American workers they may impact.

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Homan: ICE Says 100 Criminal Illegal Aliens Released into LA Every Day

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Tim Robbins, ICE's top deportation official, told Congress on Tuesday that as many as 100 criminal illegal aliens are being released into the Los Angeles, Calif., area every day. While some argue that sanctuary policies are "protecting" the immigrant community, former Acting Director of ICE Tom Homan reacted, saying criminal illegal immigrants are a threat to those communities.

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